ECE 101-204

Introduction to Electrical/Computer Engineering

(Lab)
Fall 2017
Thursday (1.30 PM to 3.20 PM)

Engineering Building, Room 3203

Lab Instructor:

Rohit Chaitanya Kunkumagunta rkunkuma@gmu.edu

Office Hours: Room 3505, Monday 11AM-1 PM,

Tuesday 11AM-12PM

Lab Learning Assistant: Christina Hoang

Lab Policies:

 All documentation related to the labs is posted on Blackboard.

 Attendance in all Labs and exams is mandatory. Notify the GTA in advance if you must miss
a lab.
 Notify both the course instructor and the GTA in advance if you must miss a lab exam. Make up
exams must be scheduled at least 1 week prior to the exam date. Proper documentation will need
to be submitted to the instructor in order to schedule a makeup.
 Lab office hours may be used to practice setting up experiments. They cannot be used as a
substitute for the regularly scheduled lab times, for which you are expected to be present.
 If you miss an exam for an unexcused reason you will NOT be given a makeup exam.
 Each student is expected to build the first circuit of each lab and bring the breadboard prior to
coming to the lab (except lab # 1). All required simulations listed in the pre-lab portion of the labs
need to also be completed and printed out prior to attendance in the lab. The GTA/LAs will
review the circuits and simulation results you brought with you at the start of the lab session.
 Failure to build the circuit ahead of time will result in a penalty of 20 points being deducted from
the lab report grade.
  Failure to provide print-outs of simulation results listed in the pre-lab will result in a penalty of 10
points being deducted from the lab report grade.
 Each student will work equally with a partner to complete the experiment.
 Learning Assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who will be present in each lab to assist
you and answer any questions you may have.
 Partners will be shuffled after the midterm exam, which means you will work with a new partner
for the rest of the semester
 The lab midterm and final exam will be administered individually, on the scheduled date. They
will be for a duration of 50 minutes. The names and times that each person will take the exam
will be posted one week before the exam on Blackboard.
 Students must show the GTA the complete operational circuit in the lab in order to receive credit.
The GTA may ask questions to assess the student’s understanding of the experimental set-up. The
GTA will then sign and date the experiment.
 Lab reports are due one week after the scheduled date of the experiment.
 Lab Reports will not be accepted after one week of the lab.
 Lab Reports must be legible. Carefully follow the Lab Report Format posted on Blackboard,
making sure to include all required sections. Print out and bring the report with you on the due
date listed below. Lab reports from the previous week are due at the start of the next lab session
time.
 The GMU Honor Code applies to all aspects of this lab.

Grading:

Lab Assignments/reports 60%

1 in-Lab Midterm Exam 20%

1 in-lab Final Exam 20%

Weekly Schedule:

August 31st, 2017 Introduction/Lab rules and safety

September 7th, 2017 Lab 1: Resistors, Voltage and Current

September 14th, 2017 Lab 2: Series and Parallel Circuits (Lab 1 report due)

September 21st, 2017 Lab 3: Light Emitting Diodes (Lab 2 report due)

September 28th, 2017 Lab 4: Function Generator/Oscilloscope (Lab 3 report due)

October 5th, 2017 Lab 5: Voltage Rectification (Lab 4 report due)

October 12th, 2017 Classes Do Not Meet.

October 19th, 2017 Lab Midterm (Practical-In lab)-Labs 1-4

October 26th, 2017 Lab 6: Simple Filtering

November 2nd, 2017 Lab 7: Transistor Fundamentals (Lab 6 report due)

November 9th, 2017 Lab 8: Combinational Logic (Lab 7 report due)

November 16th, 2017 Lab 9: Sequential Logic (Lab 8 report due)

November 23rd, 2017 Practice session for lab final (Lab 9 report due)

November 30th, 2017 Lab Final Exam (Practical-In the lab)-Labs 6-9